Tag: Fatality Rate

All of This Social and Economic Devastation for a 0.25% Infection Fatality Rate?

December 21, 2020

by Op-Ed

Imagine living in a town of 10,000 people. According to national averages, 75 people in your town will die annually from all causes – cancers, accidents, Alzheimer’s, strokes, pneumonia, heart attacks.* Each death is sad, but this is our reality since time immemorial.

How Deadly is Covid? … Does Policy Reflect it?

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

When the World Health Organization (WHO) said in early March about 3% of people who get COVID die from it, they were wrong by at least one order of magnitude. The COVID fatality rate actually has turned out to be between 0.2% – 0.3%.

The Covid-19 Fatality Rate Slashed by the CDC

May 30, 2020

by NITZAKHON

Today the CDC’s COVID-19 fatality rate is but a small fraction of its origins; guesstimate. The earlier number was used to justify the de facto suspension of the U.S. Constitution.

Data Point – CDC estimate of COVID-19 / Coronavirus Fatality Rate

May 24, 2020

by Skip

But that’s not even the most important part of their latest estimates. It’s the CDC’s new “best estimate” for the case fatality rate amongst symptomatic patients.But, before I got to that, I should note that back in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated a 3.4 percent fatality rate and Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that the fatality rate of … Read more